Brad Compton
Plant Manager at Interstate Packaging
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrad Compton is a Plant Manager and continuous improvement leader with 30+ years of hands-on experience transforming manufacturing operations, driving cost reduction, and scaling best practices across multiple plants. He combines operations, engineering management, business intelligence, and financial analysis to translate strategic business goals into pragmatic, data-driven shop floor improvements. Brad has led cross-functional teams at companies from Bemis to Schneider Electric and Mondi, and most recently returned to lead operations in Nashville after plant leadership roles at Sonoco and Jindal Films. Unusually for an operations executive, he also contributes code to prominent open-source projects like Ramda, reflecting a detail-oriented, technical mindset that informs his process improvement and systems thinking. He holds an Executive MBA from Vanderbilt and a mechanical engineering background, blending technical rigor with business acumen to sustain continuous improvement initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Pre-Engineering, 3.2, Bachelor's degree, Pre-Engineering, 3.2 at Middle Tennessee State UniversityBachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering at Tennessee Technological UniversityExecutive MBA, Executive MBA, 3.78, Executive MBA, Executive MBA, 3.78 at Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
Github Skills (5)
ram10
javascript10
functional-programming10
ramdajs10
testing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ramda/ramda
May 2016 - Sep 2020
:ram: Practical functional Javascript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 29 commits, 39 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brad contributed to the Ramda library by implementing and updating several features. Their work included adding property tests for various functions like compose, curry, and flip, enhancing the library's testing suite. Additionally, the user addressed issues such as handling type mismatches in array concatenation and updating type signatures for function parameters, improving the library's robustness and documentation accuracy. They also removed legacy support and dependencies.
javascriptramda
Bradcomp/Bradcomp.github.io
Aug 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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